Some 2023 Highlights

What’s been happening in the AWTT portrait gallery this past year?

AWTT to be Honored by Maine Art Education Association

We are pleased to announce that Americans Who Tell the Truth has been named the 2024 Maine Art Education Association’s Art Advocate of the Year.  MAEA announced the 2024 award in a letter this week from the Association’s president, Cory Bucknam, to artist Robert Shetterly and AWTT education director Connie Carter: “Your creative and dedicated […]

Orono Rocks Community-wide Event

Through a collaborative effort, the Orono Public Library, the Town of Orono, and RSU 26 ( the Orono schools) brought an exhibition and presentation of the Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits to the Orono, Maine community, October 6-November 10, 2023.  Thirteen portraits and the accompanying biographies were displayed in retail businesses, banks, offices and […]

AWTT Urges Dialogue on Difficult Issues

Americans Who Tell the Truth – and founding artist Robert Shetterly – recognize that the truth isn’t always obvious or easily discovered. We must search hard for answers. Turning away, or closing our eyes, to the harsh realities is not a solution. This past month, Shetterly dug into the written word to explore his truths. […]

What Does Collective Truth Telling Look Like?

AWTT artist Robert Shetterly joins The BET Center’s podcast series “Changed Climate.”

Leadership Education at Duke Divinity features AWTT portraits

Duke University has recognized AWTT in a recent article “Honoring those who speak truth to power,” published by the school’s Faith and Leadership online learning resource.

On the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington

The anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom gives us an opportunity to honor those who have fought so hard for racial justice.

Reflections on Juneteenth

How we remember our history matters. As the nation observes Juneteenth – this date in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas, informing slaves that the Confederacy had lost the war and that they were free under the Emancipation Proclamation – the Equal Justice Initiative reminds us to remember this historical event in context – […]

Pride Month: News Updates

As Pride Month rolls around again, we spotlight those from the AWTT portrait gallery who continue to stand up and advocate for all human beings to be valued for who they are and to be recognized for their significant contributions to our society. Nicole Maines Maines continues to pursue, and flourish in, her career as […]

Robert Shetterly Receives Award from Maine Education Association

AWTT artist Robert Shetterly was pleased to receive the Ashley Bryan Arts and Humanities Award last weekend during the Maine Education Association’s 95th Representative Assembly in South Portland. The annual Ashley Bryan award “honor(s) an individual in the fields of the arts and the humanities for their commitment to education and their work and advocacy […]